White Suspect Arrested in Louisiana Killings of Black Men Police Say Likely ‘Racially Motivated’
BATON ROUGE, La. — Police believe the slayings of two black men in Baton Rouge were likely racially motivated and said Sunday they have a suspect — a 23-year-old white man — in custody.
The suspect, Kenneth Gleason, was being held on drug charges. Authorities didn’t yet have enough evidence to charge him with murder, said Sgt. L’Jean McKneely, a Baton Rouge police spokesman.
McKneely said that shell casings from the shootings linked the two slayings and that a car belonging to Gleason fit the description of the vehicle police were looking for. He said authorities had collected other circumstantial evidence but wouldn’t say what it was.
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